Tyrhael has made 1187 posts and is an Elf from Lothlorien and is not online.
Posted Thursday 1st January 1970 (12:00am)

Just out of curiousity, I got something for the first 2 'musical phrases,' (Quenya) they sound something like:

Ná man ei ta(i)tha i aeronSí mana a(i)thra aiya

Now... I'm not very good at listening and figuring out what they're saying, but I'm basing guesses on what I have.The first line could be Ná mana i taitha i eäron, maybe?That's Is (what?why?) the (?) of the sea(s?)The 2nd= Sí mana athra aiya, Now why (something about return?) behold

That's sounding sorta good, but I'm wondering if anyone hears something different than me, or perhaps if what I guessed could be translated or arranged more accurately...I mean, it's not like I'm fluent in Quenya. AND, the only Quenya-English / English-Quenya online dictionary I know of is now offline. So, can anyone help, and / or does anyone know the address for good Eng. -Q. and vice versa online dict.'s?

Peredhil has made 2167 posts and is a Dunedain from Osgiliath and is not online.
Posted Thursday 1st January 1970 (12:00am)

[url=http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/wordlists.htm]Here can be found the best Quenya wordlists, available for download as RTF files.

I make the first line either: Who is the ¿taitha? of the seas? or The ¿taitha? of the seas is for something.

For the second: Now what is ¿aithra? [hail? awe?]?

Aithra seems unlikely (as does taitha) as practically all instances of -th- had changed to -s- by the time of LOTR. With this in mind, I have come up with these alternatives: aista, the verb to dread, but this seems unlikely, as the root forms of verbs were never used in Quenya. The noun dread would probably be laistalë. The distinctive sound rules this out. Also aira, which can mean either red or eternal. Neither, however, is very helpful.

Tyrhael has made 1187 posts and is an Elf from Lothlorien and is not online.
Posted Sunday 30th May 2004 (08:04pm)

I think something like this works:

Na manen taethar i Aearon!
Si mana athan aear...

Melmelma nóren sina
Núra ala Eäro....

Now, I am positive the first Quenya line is correct, but I'm not that great with Sindarin, and the first word could also be A or Nâ. I don't really know what words EXIST, so...
Also, si could be sí.
I'm sure about the rest except the last line:
I got THAT off a website, but where they hear Eäro I hear something like Mithrandu, which obviously is not a Quenya word... I don't know.

Here are what I make of the lyrics:
To / It is how they tie the Great Ocean
Here/now [?] beyond (the) sea...

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